Finance Business Partner
- Recruiter
- Robert Walters
- Location
- England, Bedfordshire, Bedford
- Salary
- £48000 - £52000 per annum + Car & bonus
- Posted
- 21 Jun 2018
- Closes
- 28 Jun 2018
- Ref
- 50273203/001
- Contact
- Robert Patterson
- Job Title
- Finance Business Partner
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Currently recruiting for a market leading multinational FMCG entity based in Bedford, looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner within operations and distributions chains across the UK. My client is experiencing an extended period of growth and truly is a great place to work with regards to working culture and employee engagement.
Currently recruiting for a market leading multinational FMCG entity based in Bedford, looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner within operations and distributions chains across the UK. My client is experiencing an extended period of growth and truly is a great place to work with regards to working culture and employee engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
- To be a champion of business partnering taking the function to a high level of influence, challenge and support the operational and distribution business units across the UK/I.
- Support the Head of Finance with department continuous improvement, finance transformation and to deliver best practice.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with both finance and non-finance stakeholders, up to director level. Internal- CFO and external- Operations Directors
- Create a culture of continuous improvement through KPI and continually reviewing, simplify and improve management processes
- Drive top and bottom line revenue improvements
- Develop a strong understanding of all departments including the key cost drivers and reporting requirements to improve performance.
- Organise and lead periodic meetings with department heads & team to ensure ownership and accuracy of forecasts
- Provide insight to functional cost owners to ensure decision-making is based on commercial understanding
- Drive and imbed functional rolling strategic plans for 1 -3 years and be able to translate this into robust budgets and forecasts.
- Ownership of specific finance projects ensuring quality reporting and cross business involvement
Candidate Profile:
- Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA accountant
- Excellent Excel skills are essential including Vlookups/Pivot Tables/SumIFs
- Experience of working within fast paced multi-site FMCG environment
- Analytical and inquisitive with a pro-active approach to meet both internal and external customer needs.
- Attention to detail and the ability to challenge information and documents
- Ability to work to tight deadlines essential.
If this could be you feel free to apply below or conversely drop me an email on